Accelerating Operational Performance

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The Accelerating Operational Performance podcast, hosted by leadership author and expert Greg Schinkel, is your destination for breakthrough strategies in manufacturing, supply chain, and operational leadership. Here, a diverse array of guests delivers a trifecta of value in every episode: accelerating projects, engaging teams, and enhancing leadership skills for a stress-reduced path to success.

  1. 6d ago

    Dre Baldwin: The Execution Gap Between Strategy and the Shop Floor

    Your plant has the SOPs, the checklists, and a sound strategy from the leadership team. Yet the same small mistakes keep showing up on the off shifts, and nobody says a word until the numbers slip. Most plants don't have a strategy problem. They have an execution problem. Greg sits down with Dre Baldwin, former professional athlete, business coach, and founder of Work On Your Game University, to talk about what pro sports can teach leaders in industry about execution. You'll hear Dre's five-step feedback loop, his idea of power presence for supervisors promoted from the peer group, and why culture only becomes real when it's enforced. Chapters: 0:00 Strategy problem or execution problem? 2:29 The habit business gets wrong 6:30 Execution reliability 10:27 Power presence 16:12 Culture is what you tolerate and enforce 18:54 The five-step feedback loop 20:03 A takeaway for plant managers 20:46 Consistent correction means fewer corrections 23:21 Execution is the bridge from knowing to doing Is the gap in your operation a strategy gap or an execution gap? Visit UniqueDevelopment.com to talk with our team about your organization's leadership development needs. Guest: Dre Baldwin LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dreallday/ Host: Greg Schinkel LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregschinkel/ Connect with us: Website: https://uniquedevelopment.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/unique-training-&-development-inc-/ Email: hello@uniquedevelopment.com

    Dre Baldwin: The Execution Gap Between Strategy and the Shop Floor

  2. Oct 12

    Neil Thompson: How Engineers Get Heard by Decision-Makers

    Greg sits down with Neil Thompson, founder of Teach The Geek, to talk about why technical experts so often struggle to communicate with non-technical decision-makers. Neil shares how a canceled project early in his engineering career pushed him to fix his own presentations, and why it's easier to teach presentation skills to the people who hold the knowledge than to expect someone else to present it for them. Neil walks through the self-awareness gap and the three things technical people should prioritize when they present to management: clarity, relevance, and actionability. Chapters: 0:00 Introduction 3:08 Neil's first presentations to the C-suite 4:53 How Neil started Teach The Geek 6:58 The technical expert's biggest strength 8:42 The self-awareness gap 15:08 A six-step process for any presentation 20:00 Clarity, relevance, and actionability Connect with Neil Thompson: https://teachthegeek.com Do your technical experts know their stuff but struggle to get buy-in? Visit https://uniquedevelopment.com to talk with our team about your organization's leadership development needs.

    Neil Thompson: How Engineers Get Heard by Decision-Makers

  3. Sep 28

    Kirby Griffin: DRIVE Problem Solving Program

    Your plant has hundreds of improvement opportunities and a small continuous improvement or quality team to work through them. The same problems keep coming back, shift after shift. The people who know the most about those problems are standing right next to the process, but they’re not the ones solving them. Greg sits […]

    Kirby Griffin: DRIVE Problem Solving Program

  4. Sep 14

    Dr Pelè: Why Training Alone Doesn’t Create Results

    In this special dual-podcast episode, Greg Schinkel (our President at Unique Training & Development) sits down with Dr. Pelè Ugboajah of ResultPal to tackle one of L&D’s oldest unsolved problems: how do you actually prove that training drives business results?

    Dr Pelè: Why Training Alone Doesn’t Create Results

  5. Aug 31

    Mary Fehr: The Layoff We Didn’t Do

    When tariffs hit and work dried up, Mary Fehr had a spreadsheet answer and a small-town answer. She took the small-town one. Choosing their workers over the spreadsheet. Mary is President of Unifab, a 200-person custom metal fabricator in Leamington, Ontario, founded by her father, Abe, 35 years ago. Before she joined in […]

    Mary Fehr: The Layoff We Didn’t Do

  6. Aug 17

    An HR Director’s 3-Word Leadership Mantra | Seanna Pickard

    Seanna Pickard, HR Director at the Federal Bridge Corporation, breaks down the 3-word mantra she uses to make every decision: fair, equitable, transparent.

    An HR Director’s 3-Word Leadership Mantra | Seanna Pickard

  7. Aug 3

    Umesh Vendargon: Structure Gets You By. Culture Gets You Ahead.

    Structure will get a team to its KPIs, but it doesn’t always get them past them. In this episode of Accelerating Operational Performance, host Greg Schinkel talks with Umesh Vendargon, COO of Core Linen Services, about the gap between management and leadership. Umesh traces his own path from the operations floor through a […]

    Umesh Vendargon: Structure Gets You By. Culture Gets You Ahead.

  8. Jul 28

    BONUS: Greg on the Chemical Engineering Podcast — Career Paths & Leadership Skills for Engineers

    On this bonus episode, we're sharing a conversation from the Chemical Engineering podcast. Senior editor Scott Jenkins speaks with Greg Schinkel, CEO here at Unique Training & Development and host of the Accelerating Operational Performance podcast. The conversation focuses on career paths open to engineers and offers thoughts on what engineers and companies can do to develop leadership skills for their teams. This episode originally aired on the Chemical Engineering podcast.

    BONUS: Greg on the Chemical Engineering Podcast — Career Paths & Leadership Skills for Engineers
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The Accelerating Operational Performance podcast, hosted by leadership author and expert Greg Schinkel, is your destination for breakthrough strategies in manufacturing, supply chain, and operational leadership. Here, a diverse array of guests delivers a trifecta of value in every episode: accelerating projects, engaging teams, and enhancing leadership skills for a stress-reduced path to success.

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